Meet the travel blogger who made 6 figures writing about her vacations

Christy Woodrow, the blogger behind Ordinary Traveler. Here she is feeding Flamingos in Aruba.Courtesy of Christy WoodrowSome people spend their day at a desk dreaming of traveling abroad, but not Christy Woodrow.

The 36-year-old started her blog Ordinary Traveler back in 2011 after a six-week vacation to Southeast Asia with her boyfriend. Fast forward to 2016, and Woodrow made six figures last year off of her travel blog.

"The bigger travel blogs are people who quit their jobs and became nomads — you don't have to do that," Woodrow tells Tech Insider.

At first, she blogged part-time and kept an office job as a financial advisor for businesses. But about three years later, Woodrow was able to quit her job and focus on Ordinary Traveler full-time.

Though she lives with her boyfriend in San Diego, she travels the world, visiting everywhere from Australia to Nepal.

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... And kayaking off of Vancouver Island. While traveling the world for your job may sound fun, it took Woodrow awhile to get used to the lack of stability.

“When I was six months into pursuing my blog full-time, I was kind of a basket case,” she recalls to Tech Insider. "I’ve learned that there will be months when I’m not going to make a lot of money and then sometimes I’ll make a ton of money."

You also need to realize you’ll be working — a lot.

"The first few years I worked 80-hour weeks, and now I try to set certain hours where I work because it can be really consuming," she says. (It can't all be relaxing in the water, like she is here off the coast of Pinel Island in Saint Martin.)

But while balancing her job and free time can be a challenge, Woodrow says her amazing experiences make it worthwhile, whether it's camping in California or a solo trip to Cabo, Mexico (below).

"My best memories usually have to do with wildlife," she tells us. "I went snorkeling with humpback whales in Newfoundland, [which was] a really cool experience because there are only a few places in the world where you can do that."